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Posted on 02/24/2026 5:26:29 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Russia accused Ukraine on Tuesday of trying to obtain a nuclear weapon with help from Britain and France, an allegation Kyiv called an absurd lie.
A French foreign ministry spokesperson said the allegation was "blatant disinformation". A spokesperson for British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said: "There's no truth to this."
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has previously criticised Kyiv's decision to give up its former Soviet nuclear arsenal in the 1990s without obtaining proper, binding security guarantees. But Kyiv has said it does not seek to re-acquire nuclear weapons, and respects all international treaties.
NUCLEAR THREATS
In a statement published on the fourth anniversary of the war, Russia's SVR foreign intelligence service said Britain and France believed that Ukraine would be able to secure more favourable terms for ending the war if it possessed "a nuclear bomb, or at least a so-called 'dirty bomb'". It did not include documentary evidence to back its assertion.
A dirty bomb is an explosive device laced with radioactive material that could contaminate a wide area. But it is completely different from an atomic weapon designed to set off a massive nuclear explosion.
The SVR said London and Paris were "actively working" on the provision of nuclear weapons and delivery systems to Ukraine, while making it look as though Kyiv had obtained them by itself.
Heorhii Tykhyi, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, told Reuters: "For the record: Ukraine has already denied such absurd Russian claims many times before, and we officially deny them again now." Throughout the conflict, Moscow has repeatedly issued veiled nuclear threats to deter the West from going too far in its support of Ukraine.
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Actually, Frenchie, it wouldn’t surprise me at all.
Wouldn’t surprise me either…….the way coke snorting Macron has been acting lately, I bet he’d like to nuke the US also. He acts just like Zelensky and wants to blame us because his wife beats him.
Ukraine had nuclear weapons - world’s third largest stockpile - but gave them up after security assurances from the United States, Russia, and the United Kingdom. So much for security assurances.
They can incinerate every city from Galway to Irkutsk.
Just leave the USA out of it.
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